Bempton / Bentone

There is an entry for Bempton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1972/bempton/] [accessed 1 February 2019] but ir mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Prickett (1831) writes: "The font is in the shape like that of Bridlington." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font of the early period, ornamented with scroll-work "as a band at the base of the bowl". The font consists of a hemispherical basin, plain except for a moulding at the upper rim and a number of leaves or palmettes [not scroll-work] on the underbowl, raised on a plain cylindrical shaft and a lower base formed by two roll mouldings at the top and an octagonal volume below; the two step plinth apperas of later date. The basin well is also hemispherical and has a central drain, now blocked. The oak cover, fashioned on the ribs-and-centre-pivot style, is modern, of the late 1950s as the dedication inscription testifies [NB: there appears to be the trace of one iron staple from the original cover in the upper rim surface]. The entry for this church by Rita Wood in the CRSBI (2019) notes about this church: "The two nave arcades are dated c.1200 by the Victoria County History, where the base of the tower with tower arch is also said to be of that date. Sykes and Mount [T. Sykes and J. Mount, St Michael’s, Bempton. Bridlington n.d.] suggest that the church was already in being from pre-Conquest times and that arcades were cut in this contemporary with the application to the priory for improved rights"; the present font is not mentioned, it being too late for the CRSBI scope. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA1910972099] notes: "Church. Early C13 nave arcades, C14 west tower, chancel 1829, C19 south porch. Major restorations 1870, 1906. [...] Early C13 goblet-shaped font with stiff-leaf ornament to base."